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y separately published work icon After the Bloodwood Staff single work   novel   fantasy   adventure  
Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 After the Bloodwood Staff
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'The sedentary and impractical Hoyle meets Sybil Alvaro in a used bookstore, and she invites him to follow in the footsteps of her favourite author in a search for the mysterious Bloodwood Staff. He’s spent his entire life reading vintage adventure action, and thinks he knows how these things should go.

'In the mountains west of Sydney, his expectations are almost immediately derailed, as nobody – not Sybil, and certainly not the irrepressible Ada Drake, stand-in for the obligatory plucky urchin – behaves the way they’re supposed to.

'As they gradually realise that their lighthearted adventure has put themselves and their loved ones in dire peril, Hoyle is forced to face the fact that he is woefully unsuited to be the stereotypical hero.

'A deliberate subversion of adventure, fantasy and satire tropes, After the Bloodwood Staff is a brilliant and unexpected ride.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Fyshwick, Hume - Fyshwick - Canberra airport area, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory,: Odyssey Books , 2016 .
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      Extent: 282p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 10 December 2016.
      ISBN: 1922200727, 9781922200723

Works about this Work

[Review] After the Bloodwood Staff Deanne Sheldon-Collins , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 99 2017;

— Review of After the Bloodwood Staff Laura Goodin , 2016 single work novel
[Review] After the Bloodwood Staff Deanne Sheldon-Collins , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 99 2017;

— Review of After the Bloodwood Staff Laura Goodin , 2016 single work novel
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